OPEC Oil Embargo

What is OPEC?
OPEC is an intergovernmental group of the 12 developing countries of Alegria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. Headquarters in Vienna since 1965.

Oil Embargo

October 1973 - March 1974

The oil embargo was announced in response to the United States resupplying the Israeli military during the Yom Kippur War.